: But the third paragraph is interesting. While I'm sure that the creatures she
: refers to are the Flood, what of the "sun - black, but shining"
: whose "fiery
: tracks" they crawl on?

: My speculation? It's High Charity (which might be seen from an angle as a
: dark "sun" with glittering "fiery" lights on it),
: during the demise of the Forerunners, when it contained the Ark. The
: Flood, being not-dumb, probably figured out the whole scheme with the
: Halos and the Ark, and promptly decided to assault the Ark before the
: Halos were activated. There certainly may be flaws with this theory, but
: it seems possible to me.

: Letter #2: The suns (plural) stumps me, so I can't speak with anything
: resembling authority. My own intuitions are telling me that this one was
: written at the time she gets to the next Halo, but perhaps it was
: somewhere else. As for the "fourth", I strongly believe that it
: is the Flood (aside from humanity, the Covenant [whom she has consistantly
: considered more of a whole than as individual species], and the
: Forerunners).

: Just my interpretation, but I don't think the "sun- black, but
: shining" is High Charity, but the Halos themselves. The Halos are the
: light at the end of the tunnel so to speak; they end a time a great trial
: and tribulation with a very desperate action, somewhat of a morbid ending
: but far better than being controlled by the Flood (the creatures that
: "inch along its' [Halo's?] fiery tracks". Fiery tracks =
: activation of Halos?